1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:02.03 - [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you a better way 2 00:00:02.03 --> 00:00:04.08 to create a new pattern based on an existing one 3 00:00:04.08 --> 00:00:08.01 that's a heck of a lot less confusing, frankly. 4 00:00:08.01 --> 00:00:11.06 And that's going to allow us to add these repeated reflections 5 00:00:11.06 --> 00:00:14.01 closer to the center of the eye. 6 00:00:14.01 --> 00:00:16.03 Alright, so the first thing we want to do is 7 00:00:16.03 --> 00:00:19.05 ensure that we're going to keep our effects live by 8 00:00:19.05 --> 00:00:23.01 applying them to the original object on the Drawing Layer. 9 00:00:23.01 --> 00:00:24.08 So, I'll go ahead and turn off the Pattern Layer, 10 00:00:24.08 --> 00:00:27.05 for the moment, and I'll select this shape right here. 11 00:00:27.05 --> 00:00:32.03 And, notice what we have, if you will, is a compound shape. 12 00:00:32.03 --> 00:00:34.07 So, this circle right here, the lower circle, 13 00:00:34.07 --> 00:00:38.00 is cutting a hole in the higher circle behind it. 14 00:00:38.00 --> 00:00:41.02 And then, the remaining region is filled with a gradient. 15 00:00:41.02 --> 00:00:44.00 And, if you were to bring up the gradient panel right here, 16 00:00:44.00 --> 00:00:47.01 you would see that it's a fairly complicated gradient. 17 00:00:47.01 --> 00:00:49.03 It has a bunch of shades of blue in it, 18 00:00:49.03 --> 00:00:52.00 and some of the colors stops are set to zero percent 19 00:00:52.00 --> 00:00:55.08 opacity, and that allows us to create these holes right here 20 00:00:55.08 --> 00:00:58.05 on either side of the shape. 21 00:00:58.05 --> 00:00:59.08 Alright, so what we want to do is 22 00:00:59.08 --> 00:01:02.09 take this effect and duplicate it a couple of times 23 00:01:02.09 --> 00:01:05.08 using a live transform effect. 24 00:01:05.08 --> 00:01:07.08 So, I'll go ahead and switch back to the Stroke Panel, 25 00:01:07.08 --> 00:01:09.06 just so I have a little more room to work. 26 00:01:09.06 --> 00:01:11.09 And I'll switch over to the Appearance Panel, 27 00:01:11.09 --> 00:01:13.09 which of course you can get by choosing 28 00:01:13.09 --> 00:01:16.02 the Appearance command from the Window Menu. 29 00:01:16.02 --> 00:01:18.09 Notice that we're working with a compound shape, once again. 30 00:01:18.09 --> 00:01:23.01 No stroke, gradient fill and a little bit of Gaussian Blur. 31 00:01:23.01 --> 00:01:26.04 And, then the Blend Mode is set to Screen. 32 00:01:26.04 --> 00:01:27.07 Alright, so now what I want to do 33 00:01:27.07 --> 00:01:30.09 is go up to the Effect Menu, choose Distort and Transform, 34 00:01:30.09 --> 00:01:33.08 and choose Transform, which if you loaded D Keys, 35 00:01:33.08 --> 00:01:37.05 has a handy keyboard shortcut of CTRL + E here on the PC, 36 00:01:37.05 --> 00:01:39.06 or Command + E on the Mac. 37 00:01:39.06 --> 00:01:42.04 And, now I'll go ahead and turn on the Preview checkbox. 38 00:01:42.04 --> 00:01:45.00 And, then I just went ahead and experimented here. 39 00:01:45.00 --> 00:01:47.03 I'm going to click in Horizontal Scale value 40 00:01:47.03 --> 00:01:50.01 and press Shift + Down Arrow a few times, 41 00:01:50.01 --> 00:01:52.09 in order to reduce the width of the effect. 42 00:01:52.09 --> 00:01:55.00 And then I'll tab to the Vertical value 43 00:01:55.00 --> 00:01:59.03 and take it down as well, ultimately to 40%. 44 00:01:59.03 --> 00:02:00.08 Now I want to see what that looks like, 45 00:02:00.08 --> 00:02:03.06 so I'll go ahead and click in the Copies value here, 46 00:02:03.06 --> 00:02:06.01 and I'll press the Up Arrow key a couple of times 47 00:02:06.01 --> 00:02:07.09 so that we have these two copies. 48 00:02:07.09 --> 00:02:10.04 Notice they're way too close to the original. 49 00:02:10.04 --> 00:02:12.07 So, I went ahead and changed the origin point, 50 00:02:12.07 --> 00:02:15.01 in this little reference point matrix right here, 51 00:02:15.01 --> 00:02:17.01 to the bottom point, like so. 52 00:02:17.01 --> 00:02:19.07 And that ends up spreading things out pretty nicely, 53 00:02:19.07 --> 00:02:22.07 but now the reflections are too close to the center. 54 00:02:22.07 --> 00:02:26.00 And, so I clicked in this Vertical Move value, and I pressed 55 00:02:26.00 --> 00:02:30.02 Shift + Down Arrow, in order to reduce that value to -10. 56 00:02:30.02 --> 00:02:33.01 And then I pressed the Down Arrow key a few more times 57 00:02:33.01 --> 00:02:35.08 until I got the effect I was looking for. 58 00:02:35.08 --> 00:02:38.08 So, to recap, the Horizontal Scale value is 50%. 59 00:02:38.08 --> 00:02:41.03 The Vertical Scale value is 40%. 60 00:02:41.03 --> 00:02:43.02 I set the Copies value to two. 61 00:02:43.02 --> 00:02:46.02 I selected the bottom point in the reference point matrix. 62 00:02:46.02 --> 00:02:49.04 And I set the Vertical Move value to -14. 63 00:02:49.04 --> 00:02:53.02 At which point, I'll click OK to accept that change. 64 00:02:53.02 --> 00:02:54.09 Alright, now we want to update the pattern. 65 00:02:54.09 --> 00:02:57.02 And you can do that by first pressing CTRL + C, 66 00:02:57.02 --> 00:03:00.03 or Command + C on the Mac, in order to copy the effect. 67 00:03:00.03 --> 00:03:03.03 Then, click off the paths, in order to deselect them, 68 00:03:03.03 --> 00:03:05.07 so you don't end up filling them with a pattern. 69 00:03:05.07 --> 00:03:07.04 And, assuming you're working along with me, 70 00:03:07.04 --> 00:03:10.09 go ahead and select that second pattern swatch HAL 2. 71 00:03:10.09 --> 00:03:13.07 And, then instead of double-clicking on it, just drop down 72 00:03:13.07 --> 00:03:16.05 to the little page icon at the bottom of the Swatches Panel, 73 00:03:16.05 --> 00:03:17.08 and click on it. 74 00:03:17.08 --> 00:03:19.09 And anytime you're working with a pattern swatch, 75 00:03:19.09 --> 00:03:22.08 that is going to duplicate that swatch, 76 00:03:22.08 --> 00:03:24.03 as we're seeing right here. 77 00:03:24.03 --> 00:03:27.01 At which point, I'll just go ahead and call this guy HAL 3, 78 00:03:27.01 --> 00:03:30.00 and click OK, and now we have a third swatch. 79 00:03:30.00 --> 00:03:31.05 Now, I'll double-click on it, 80 00:03:31.05 --> 00:03:33.06 in order to switch to the Pattern Editor. 81 00:03:33.06 --> 00:03:35.05 And, I'll click on this guy right here, 82 00:03:35.05 --> 00:03:38.00 which is the reflection, which has once again 83 00:03:38.00 --> 00:03:40.07 been rasterized to a pixel-based image. 84 00:03:40.07 --> 00:03:43.03 So, go ahead and select it and press the Backspace key, 85 00:03:43.03 --> 00:03:45.03 or the Delete key on the Mac, to get rid of it. 86 00:03:45.03 --> 00:03:48.04 And then press CTRL + F, or Command + F on the Mac, 87 00:03:48.04 --> 00:03:50.07 in order to paste in the new reflections. 88 00:03:50.07 --> 00:03:53.02 Notice once again, they are off center, 89 00:03:53.02 --> 00:03:55.09 so you're going to have to press CTRL + Y, or Command + Y 90 00:03:55.09 --> 00:03:58.04 on the Mac, to switch to the Outline Mode. 91 00:03:58.04 --> 00:04:00.04 And I'll go ahead and zoom in a little bit, 92 00:04:00.04 --> 00:04:03.00 just so I have a more satisfying experience here. 93 00:04:03.00 --> 00:04:05.03 And I'll drag the center point so that it snaps 94 00:04:05.03 --> 00:04:08.07 into alignment with the center of the other circles. 95 00:04:08.07 --> 00:04:11.02 And you want to drag that top center point, by the way, 96 00:04:11.02 --> 00:04:12.03 not the bottom one. 97 00:04:12.03 --> 00:04:14.05 It doesn't look to me like we've really 98 00:04:14.05 --> 00:04:16.06 snapped into alignment right there. 99 00:04:16.06 --> 00:04:18.05 So, I'm going to zoom in a little closer. 100 00:04:18.05 --> 00:04:20.04 And this is one of those times when smart guys 101 00:04:20.04 --> 00:04:22.03 can get in your way, actually. 102 00:04:22.03 --> 00:04:25.00 So, I'm going to undo that movement. 103 00:04:25.00 --> 00:04:26.06 And I'm going to go up to the View Menu 104 00:04:26.06 --> 00:04:30.00 and turn off Smart Guides to get them out of my way. 105 00:04:30.00 --> 00:04:32.05 And then I'll drag this top center point once again, 106 00:04:32.05 --> 00:04:34.09 not this guy down here, but this one. 107 00:04:34.09 --> 00:04:38.02 I'll go ahead and drag it until it snaps into alignment. 108 00:04:38.02 --> 00:04:40.03 Well, I guess, Smart Guides would've helped me out 109 00:04:40.03 --> 00:04:42.07 a little bit there cause I got no snap whatsoever. 110 00:04:42.07 --> 00:04:45.06 But it looks like it's aligned anyway. 111 00:04:45.06 --> 00:04:48.01 Alright, so I'll just go ahead and press CTRL + 0, 112 00:04:48.01 --> 00:04:50.06 or Command + 0 on the Mac, in order to zoom out. 113 00:04:50.06 --> 00:04:52.07 I'll click off the shapes to deselect them. 114 00:04:52.07 --> 00:04:55.06 And then I'll press CTRL + Y, or Command + Y on the Mac, 115 00:04:55.06 --> 00:04:57.04 to switch back to the preview mode. 116 00:04:57.04 --> 00:05:00.02 At which point, everything looks to be in good shape. 117 00:05:00.02 --> 00:05:02.05 Now, as you can see here in the Pattern Options panel, 118 00:05:02.05 --> 00:05:05.03 we are working on the HAL 3 pattern, 119 00:05:05.03 --> 00:05:07.04 which means all you need to do at this point is 120 00:05:07.04 --> 00:05:10.01 click the Done button, up here at the top of the screen, 121 00:05:10.01 --> 00:05:12.03 or you can just press the Escape key. 122 00:05:12.03 --> 00:05:14.09 Now, you are going to get that first alert message once again 123 00:05:14.09 --> 00:05:17.01 that's telling you that you're going to lose, 124 00:05:17.01 --> 00:05:19.02 in this case, your live effects. 125 00:05:19.02 --> 00:05:21.06 All you can do is click OK to accept that fact. 126 00:05:21.06 --> 00:05:24.03 But, it's not a problem because we still have 127 00:05:24.03 --> 00:05:28.08 our original live effects, right here on the Drawing Layer 128 00:05:28.08 --> 00:05:31.01 here inside the Layers panel. 129 00:05:31.01 --> 00:05:31.09 Alright, so I'll go ahead 130 00:05:31.09 --> 00:05:33.06 and turn the Pattern Layer back on. 131 00:05:33.06 --> 00:05:36.05 And then I'll click on the big red rectangle to select it, 132 00:05:36.05 --> 00:05:39.05 make sure my fill is active in the Swatches Panel, and then 133 00:05:39.05 --> 00:05:44.07 I'll select HAL 3 in order to update all those reflections. 134 00:05:44.07 --> 00:05:45.06 Alright, that's it. 135 00:05:45.06 --> 00:05:47.08 So, I'll just go ahead and press the F key a couple of times 136 00:05:47.08 --> 00:05:49.07 to switch to the Full Screen mode. 137 00:05:49.07 --> 00:05:52.03 And I'll press CTRL + 0, or Command + 0 on the Mac, 138 00:05:52.03 --> 00:05:54.07 to center my zoom. 139 00:05:54.07 --> 00:05:56.03 And that is how you create a pattern 140 00:05:56.03 --> 00:05:59.00 of honest to gosh HAL 9000 eyes, 141 00:05:59.00 --> 00:06:03.02 over the course of five movies here inside Illustrator.